Order CHARADRII FORMES Family CHARADRIIDJE. 
No. 172. 
CIRREPIDESMUS BICINCTUS. 
DOUBLE -BANDED DOTTEREL, 
(Plate 134.)* 
Charadrius BICINCTUS Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. I., pi. xxvra., 1827 ; New 
South Wales. 
Chestnut-breasted Plover Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. IX., p. 324, 1824. 
Charadrius hicinctus Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. I., pi. xxvm., 1827 ; Potts, 
Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1869, Vol. II., p. 67, 1870 ; id., ib. 1872, Vol. V., p. 197, 1873 ; 
Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 210, 1873 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distrib. Charadr., p. 149, 
1887 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 3, 1888 ; id., Trans. New 
Zeal. Inst. 1891, Vol. XXIV., p. 80, 1892 ; Eorbes, Ibis 1893, p. 528 (Chatham 
Islands) ; Handly, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1895, Vol. XXVIII., p. 363, 1896. 
AEgialitis hicinctus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pi. 32, fig. ui., 1837 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 197, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 19, 
1888 ; Etheridge, Lord Howe Island, p. 17, 1889 ; Legge, Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. 
Tasm. 1887, p. 94, 1888 ; id., Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1892, p. 973 ; Campbell, 
ih., Vol. V., p. 433, 1893. 
Hiaiicula hicincta Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 16, 1845. 
OcTiihodromus hicinctus Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 238, 1865 ; Heine. 
Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 337, 1889 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., 
p. 212, 1896 ; North, Birds County Cumberl., p. 110, 1898 ; Hutton, Trans. New 
Zeal. Inst. 1900, Vol. XXXIII., p. 259, 1901 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, p. 790, 1901 ; Hutton, Emu, Vol. I., p. 141, 1902 ; HaU, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 82, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 24, 1908; Littler, Handb. 
Birds Tasm., p. 129, 1910. 
Charadrius hicinctus hicinctus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 216, 1912, 
Charadrius hicinctus incertus id., ih., p. 217 (South-west Australia). 
Distribution. South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South 
Australia, South-west Australia (New Zealand, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands). 
Adult male. General colour above olive-brown, including the hinder crown, hind-neck, 
sides of neck, entire back, scapulars, long innermost secondaries and upper wing- 
coverts ; greater coverts margined with white at the tips ; bastard-wing and 
primary-coverts tipped with wliite ; primary-quills dark brown with white shafts, 
* The Plate is lettered Charadrius hicinctus. 
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